Re: autovacuum: use case for indenpedent TOAST table autovac settings

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum: use case for indenpedent TOAST table autovac settings
Date: 2008-08-14 00:53:10
Message-ID: 18539.1218675190@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Does anyone see a need for having TOAST tables be individually
> configurable for autovacuum? I've finally come around to looking at
> being able to use ALTER TABLE for autovacuum settings, and I'm wondering
> if we need to support that case.

It seems like we'll want to do it somehow. Perhaps the cleanest way is
to incorporate toast-table settings in the reloptions of the parent
table. Otherwise dump/reload is gonna be a mess.

regards, tom lane

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